The collapse started when Kiana came to the door

So the complexion of Yulandel [Brilliant Knight·Moon Soul], another person who knew the inside story, became more and more rosy, while Rita [Blue Knight·Moon Soul] had a subtle expression, as if she was recalling how she and her captain got along at this point in time, and then nodded in understanding.

Seeing that no one on the other side seemed prepared to answer her question, Yulandel thought for a moment and chose to change the object of her inquiry to Bishop Otto who was standing next to her.

With Bishop Otto's intelligence, he should know the answer to this question -

"do not ask me."

However, Otto was so smart and perceptive that he took the initiative to cut off the opponent's retreat before Yulandel could speak.

"You shouldn't be worried about this problem right now." Otto shook his head helplessly, and cleverly changed the dangerous topic. "Judging from their subsequent performance, the words of the Herrscher lady should be simply an analogy of how irresistible their power is, and she didn't really want to make you two into that kind of thing."

"Hey, you may look annoying, but you still understand me well." The Herrscher of Knowledge was immediately happy. "It's a good thing to be self-aware. With your current destiny, it's impossible for you to fight against us!"

"Indeed, although I don't know who you are, the power you have shown so far has given you the capital to manipulate destiny at will." Otto nodded very generously, acknowledging the words of the Herrscher of Knowledge as if he didn't care about the predicament he was in at all, "But... so what?"

"Humph! What do you mean by so what?" The Herrscher of Knowledge sneered and raised his fist, waving it at Otto's face from a distance, "We are stronger than you, so you should listen to us. The one with the bigger fist gives orders to the one with the smaller fist. Isn't this a natural principle?"

"But you are not a bad person, are you?" Otto smiled peacefully, his voice elegant and calm, as if he did not hear the threat from the Herrscher of Knowledge at all. "These two women who look the same as the Red Kite Immortal should not want to see this Herrscher do whatever she wants to harm ordinary people just because she has superhuman power, right?"

"You——" The Herrscher of Consciousness was speechless for a moment, and suddenly felt like he didn't know what to say.

"Since you are not a bad person, and your companions do not want to see you do whatever you want..." Otto touched the golden symbol of destiny on his chest and said casually: "Then, I think we can talk about reason."

"You misunderstood two things, Otto." Suddenly, Fu Hua [Valkyrie Swift Feather] interrupted the conversation between Otto and the Herrscher of Knowledge.

"Oh?" Otto showed an interested expression on his face. "Excuse me, what did I misunderstand?"

"First, under normal circumstances, we do not want the Herrscher of Knowledge to do whatever they want to the weak just because they have excessive power." Fu Hua [Valkyrie Swift Feather] raised her index finger and made a gesture, "But if the situation is special, we don't mind using tough measures against the weak, using brute force to artificially adjust their trajectory of action to the path we need."

"Second." Fu Hua [Valkyrie Swift Feather] changed the one gesture into two, "What we are going to do will not cause any harm to ordinary people."

“That’s right!” The Herrscher of Knowledge quickly jumped out and nodded frantically, “There’s no point in reasoning with someone like you!”

The easy smile on Otto's face disappeared.

He narrowed his green eyes and stared deeply at the calm-looking Fu Hua [Valkyrie Swift Feather] as if he was meeting her for the first time.

Obviously, they were the same person, and their way of speaking and personality seemed exactly the same as the Fu Hua he was familiar with. But at this moment, Otto was still keenly aware that there was a subtle but insurmountable difference between this Fu Hua and the Fu Hua he knew.

...No, he should have expected it.

After all, even the "Yulandel" who broke her soul steel body into several pieces is quite different from the strongest Valkyrie named by heaven.

"Don't be so aggressive, my friend." Out of caution, Otto chose to surrender temporarily, but before he could say the next word, a spear with a black and red color was pressed against Otto's throat in a flash.

“Don’t try to get close to these old antiques!” The Herrscher of Knowledge suddenly approached Otto with a murderous look on his face. His blood-red pupils were like those of a man-eating beast, full of indescribable intimidation. “You don’t deserve it!”

Yulandel instinctively wanted to protect Otto's safety, but her body was unable to move at all under the grip of her other self.

"Xiao Shi, you come back first." Fu Hua [Valkyrie Swift Feather] sighed and waved to the Herrscher of Knowledge.

"But he-"

"You come back first." Fu Hua [Valkyrie Swift Feather] repeated her words and shook her head helplessly, "He in this world... hasn't really done those things after all."

"Tsk—" The Herrscher of Knowledge smacked his tongue in extreme displeasure, glared at Otto fiercely, retracted his words, and returned to Fu Hua [Valkyrie Swift Feather] muttering to himself.

"But Bishop Otto, you'd better not call me that." Fu Hua [Valkyrie Swift Feather] patted the Herrscher of Knowledge on the shoulder and said softly, "Hearing you say these two words, it still makes me feel a little disgusted after all."

"That's really a pity." Otto spread his hands. "It seems that the impression I left in your hearts is really annoying."

"Let's get back to the point." Fu Hua [Valkyrie Swift Feather] waved her hand, expressing that she didn't want to continue discussing her feelings towards Otto. "I know your ultimate goal, and I also know what you desire most right now."

"Let me state the conclusion directly. Except for this 'me' in ancient costume, including Kiana and Yulandel, all of us standing in front of you now are people from the future."

“So, you should have noticed it too.”

"——The technology for directional time travel is already under our control."

Chapter 4: Bishop Otto, abdicates! (k)

2015 3 Month 21 Day.

The weekend at St. Freya's College was as sunny as ever.

As a special school dedicated to training Valkyries, St. Freya's College generally does not leave its students with homework that disrupts their happy holiday life. For these Valkyries in reserve, the long-lost weekend time means relaxation and fun to the fullest.

And it was also a perfect Saturday for our great Principal Theresa.

Neither the Far East Branch nor Saint Freya had any matters that needed her attention.

There was no work, no missions, and even the irregular Honkai events had stopped for two days, perhaps because of the holiday. At least as far as she, the commander-in-chief of the Far East branch, knew, there had not been any Honkai events in the area under the jurisdiction of their Far East branch for at least a week.

The younger ones, such as Kiana, Raiden Mei, Bronya, etc., took advantage of the warmer weather to go to the newly built seaside park to play and have fun. They didn't need her, an elder, to take the trouble to take care of them.

Therefore, Theresa can stay in the office and read the newly updated "Hum's Adventure" without any worries, drink a glass of freshly squeezed bitter melon juice, and enjoy this leisurely and relaxing time happily.

If nothing else unexpected happened, Theresa would probably spend this precious peaceful weekend in this leisurely and comfortable atmosphere.

——Until the moment her communicator suddenly rang.

So, Theresa's wonderful weekend was ruined by the noisy ringtone.

Theresa, who had just opened the comic book, had an expression as if she had eaten a cockroach, but there was nothing she could do. If there was no emergency, no one would dare to contact her private communication channel at this time, except for a certain bishop who always liked to make trouble for no reason.

She glanced at the name displayed on the communicator expressionlessly, and after confirming that the person who disturbed her holiday life was not her dear grandfather, she reluctantly answered the communicator.

"Hello? Is this Dr. Einstein?" Theresa shouted the name on the screen into the communicator, trying to sound as serious as possible to cover up the fact that she was slacking off. "Why are you contacting me suddenly at this time? Is there something urgent?"

"..."

For some reason, there was an eerie silence on the other end of the communicator. If it weren't for the faint sound of breathing, Theresa would have thought there was something wrong with the signal.

"Why aren't you talking?" Theresa glanced at the comic book in her hand. "I still have a lot of documents to review. If there's nothing urgent, I'll hang up now."

"...Didn't you see it?" An inorganic voice full of speechlessness sounded from the other side of the communicator.

"What did you see?" Theresa frowned.

"The news broadcast by Destiny to the whole world is being broadcast live." The voice on the other end of the communicator said, "To be exact, it's Bishop Otto giving a... strange speech?"

"Grandpa?" Theresa had a big question mark over her head. As a world-famous Bishop of Heaven's Will, it was not a very strange thing for Otto to give a speech on the news channel. Why would Einstein specially use the emergency communication channel to contact him because of this matter?

Confused, Theresa asked as she logged into the Tianming intranet on her office computer and switched to the live broadcast channel: "What will he have..."

"In summary, I, Otto Apokalis, will resign from the position of Bishop of Heaven's Mandate effective immediately and will completely withdraw from the organization."

As a result, as soon as the live broadcast interface was entered, the blond man on the screen who looked very familiar to Theresa successfully silenced Theresa with the first sentence.

"My two successors... the strongest Valkyrie in the history of the Mandate of Heaven, Yulandel, and the new Saint of the Mandate of Heaven, Kiana Shaniyate, will take over the positions of Bishop and Archbishop in the near future, and take over all affairs of the Mandate of Heaven."

The scene in the camera suddenly changed.

The blonde knight in god-killing armor and the silver-haired ranger in a formal suit, one on the left and one on the right, appeared on the screen with calm expressions like two door gods.

Seeing the silver-haired woman in a gorgeous dress and colorful high heels, Theresa's pupils suddenly shrank to the size of a needle tip.

"I believe that under the leadership of the strongest Valkyrie in the history of Destiny and the current Saint of Destiny, our world, our organization, and Destiny will surely have a brighter future."

"The inauguration ceremony of the new bishops will be held three days later on March 24th at 10 a.m. Vienna time on the sky island of the Mandate of Heaven headquarters. At that time, we will open an additional landing channel to welcome people from all walks of life and members of various branches of the Mandate of Heaven to visit our Mandate of Heaven headquarters and watch the inauguration ceremony of the two bishops up close."

"Today's live broadcast ends here. Thank you all for watching. Let's see you again in three days."

The moment the words fell, Tianming's live broadcast channel was interrupted.

“……” Theresa said nothing, staring blankly at the black screen, her lips moving but unable to utter a single word.

Bishop Otto was going to resign, and he was letting Yulandel succeed him as bishop... Although this matter did surprise her, compared to the news that Otto was going to resign, another sudden situation made Theresa's heart stop even more.

If her eyes and ears were normal, then in the live broadcast just now, she did see the silver-haired figure standing side by side with Yulandel, the one Otto called "the new saint of destiny - Kiana Shaniat." Right?

That girl who is more mature than Kiana but looks almost the same... could it be...

"What do you think, Ms. Theresa?" Just as Theresa was lost in confusion, Einstein's inorganic voice came from the communicator, "While Bishop Otto was broadcasting live to the world, Anti-Entropy also received a fax from Destiny. Consistent with the statement in the news, the other party claimed that they welcome us to go to Destiny Sky Island to attend Miss Yulandel and... her inauguration ceremony, and..."

Speaking of general things, Einstein's words suddenly paused.

"What else?" Theresa couldn't help but ask.

"Moreover, the other party also claimed that they hope to resolve past grievances as much as possible through dialogue with us and achieve all-round cooperation and alliance."

"..." Now, Theresa became the silent person.

The silence lasted for a long time. Theresa couldn't help but tear up the comic book in her hand, then slowly hugged her little head with a sad expression.

"What kind of medicine is in Grandpa's gourd?"

"I don't know." Einstein answered honestly, "Also, Ms. Theresa, there is another emergency. I think you have the right to know."

"What else happened?!" Theresa moved her hands away from her face, the corners of her mouth twitched, and she felt a dull pain in her stomach.

"After the live broadcast of Tianming ended, which was not long ago." Einstein sighed softly, "Mr. Siegfried, who was recovering in New Mexico... disappeared."

“……” Theresa opened her mouth and then lowered her head dejectedly.

Rather than an unexpected situation, Theresa had expected Siegfried to lose control of his temper.

If there wasn't another person at St. Freya's College who needed her care, perhaps she would have driven her private transport ship straight to the Sinister Headquarters the next second after the live broadcast ended.

Sure enough, just as Theresa thought of this, her communicator rang again.

After hearing the rapid electronic sound, Einstein seemed to have noticed something and took the initiative to speak: "According to the news just now, the inauguration ceremony of Ms. Yulandel and the child will be held in three days. Before that, we still have at least two days to think about the response strategy. Ms. Theresa, when you have decided what to do, call us back. As an ally, we will respect your choice."

After saying this, Einstein unilaterally hung up the call.

The notification tone in the communicator was still ringing tirelessly. Theresa looked at her niece's name on the note, rubbed her silver hair fiercely as if she was mad, then took a long deep breath, cleared her throat, and tremblingly answered the call from Kiana as if facing a great enemy.

“Auntie, what the hell is going on with that live broadcast just now?!!!”

In an instant, a roar filled with panic, helplessness, and confusion suddenly exploded from the communicator like a tsunami.

The sharp tone almost shattered Theresa's eardrums.

"Calm down first..." Theresa almost threw the communicator in her hand away and couldn't help but cover her ears.

“But, but but but but…but neither my aunt nor my stinky dad told me that I have a sister!” The shouting on the other end of the communicator was extremely chaotic. “I, I, I, what should I do…”

"I told you not to be so anxious!" Theresa's voice suddenly rose. She was obviously in a state of confusion, and she didn't know how to explain it to Kiana. She was furious and said, "What's the point of you being anxious about me? Your stinky dad didn't tell me that he left you a sister!"

"Eh?" A clear voice on the other end of the communicator said in a confused tone, "You don't...you don't know about your period either?"

"I, I, I don't know why your sister suddenly showed up." Theresa stiffened her neck and said guiltily, "Anyway, it's useless to get anxious at me now! If you really feel it's strange, why don't you wait until the day of the inauguration ceremony and talk to her face to face?"

"Can I...can I also attend their inauguration ceremony?" the voice on the other end of the communicator asked weakly.

"Of course you can! Who do you think your aunt is?" Theresa waved her hand and said, "Besides, I also have something to ask Grandpa about. I will definitely go to his resignation, Yulandel and... your sister's inauguration ceremony. Can't I take you with me when I go there?"

"Um..." Just as Theresa patted her chest to make such a promise, another gentle voice sounded from the other end of the communicator, "President, can Bronya and I go with Kiana?"

"..." Gulp, Theresa swallowed her saliva and said cautiously, "You...you guys want to go too?"

"Well, if it's just Kiana's family affair, Bronya and I should not get too involved, but... Dean, you and Kiana don't know Miss Shaniyatt who appeared in the news, right?" On the other side of the communicator, Raiden Mei asked cautiously, "Since they haven't met for a long time, then I think that when Kiana and Miss Shaniyatt meet each other, only we, the companions who have experienced life and death with Kiana, and the dean will be the only ones who can stand by Kiana. I don't want Kiana..."

Halfway through her words, Mei Raiden's voice suddenly stopped.

Kiana's confused voice came from the communicator: "What do you want me to do, Mei?"

"Nothing... nothing?" Mei Raiden said shyly.

"?"

"...Ah, stupid Kiana..."

"???"

"..." Hearing the interaction between the three little ones on the other end of the communicator, Theresa couldn't help but reveal a somewhat relieved expression.

Obviously, neither Mei Raiden nor Bronya wanted the Kiana Kaslana they were familiar with to suffer any injustice at the hands of the so-called Saint of Destiny - Kiana Shaniate.

In this respect alone, Theresa is actually the same.

She certainly didn't want her niece to be wronged.

But at the same time, if her guess was correct, the so-called Kiana Shaniyat... should be...

To be honest, Theresa is really troubled by the issue of these two Kianas.

If possible, no matter which Kiana it was, Theresa didn't want to see the other person being wronged.

But - Theresa had to admit that both she and Siegfried owed the other Kiana too much.

So, if that Kiana Shaniat is really the biological daughter of Siegfried and Cecilia, how should I deal with the relationship between the two Kianas?

When Theresa thought of this, she felt overwhelmed and even the bitter melon juice on her desk no longer smelled good.